WG, assume for a moment that every one of your arguments have merit; assume further the total tax burden doesn't change; and moreso, the NRST is not a panacea. Assuming all these things, what value do you place on getting the federal government out of your financial life? - the dread of the IRS is gone - no filing, no audits, no receipt keeping, none of the compliance aggravations and expenses, the very intrusion into just about every aspect of your private life - ALL GONE.
Even if, (and that's a very big if), nothing else changed, wouldn't that be worth dumping the current slave tax system?
EGGS-ZACKLEY! Anyone that wants anything that includes the IRS/IRC (and the threats of loss of liberty, property and even life that they repeatedly hammer Americans with) simply has never dealth with them or doesn't produce anything, but rather TAKES! That's the only way to explain it.